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This document offers an overview on the conditioners that influence the development of think tanks in Argentina. The main argument is that for these organizations a tension between a greater participation in the process of public policies and its permanence in the time exists. In general, it can...
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The high levels of poverty and inequity that affect a large portion of Latin American population is among the main issues that the region faces. According to CEPAL (2007), 36,5% of the population of the region (194 million) is below the poverty line, while 13,4% (71 million) is below the extreme...
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Sustainability of the Social Security Systems is dependant on a large variety of factors of which, directly connected with the general economic growth, the human capital proved to have a decisive and direct influence. Internationally synchronized Education should, in this context, normally be...
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This paper provides a simple theory to study how the allocation of public funds between primary and higher education affects human capital accumulation. The allocation is endogenously determined through majority voting. Public funding for higher education is not supported when a majority is...
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Most education around the globe is public. Moreover, investment rates in education as well as schooling attainments differ substantially across countries. We construct a general equilibrium life-cycle model that is consistent with these facts. We provide simple analytical solutions for the...
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This paper deals with institutional persistence in long-term economic development. We investigate the historical record of education in one of the fastest growing and most unequal societies in the twentieth century – the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Based on historical data from an...
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We consider an overlapping generations model with public education and social security where the overall size of these policies is determined in a repeated voting game. We investigate the interaction between the politically determined policies and economic development in a Markov perfect...
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This paper examines the linkage among financial liberalization, economic growth and poverty reduction in Sub … growth is positively associated with poverty reduction and financial liberalization coefficients are positively related to … economic growth. It implies that financial liberalization causes economic growth. However, the coefficients of financial …
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consequences of Indian liberalization cannot be understood without recognizing the important continuities between the pre- and post-liberalization …. Indian capitalism after liberalization is less different than what it was before than might appear at first sight, and some … strategy to liberalization, which in turn has made the uneven development tendency stronger. The paper concludes with some …
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This paper investigates how financial, trade, institutional and political liberalization policies have affected …: (1) with the exception of the economic freedom mechanism, liberalization policies have generally decreased the growth of … economic freedom channels, liberalization policies have been fruitful for semi-formal financial development at the cost of …
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